TREES FOR LONG ISLAND 



DECIDUOUS TREES 



TULIP TREE • Liriodendron 



Liriodendron tulipif era. We consider this one of the 

 handsomest native trees on Long Island. It is always 

 straight clean and symmetrical. The largest tree on our 

 grounds' is a TuHp Tree, pulled up in the Harbor Hill 

 woods about seventy years ago. It is now about 83 feet 

 high 3 feet in diameter, with a 50-foot spread. It occurs 

 on good soil where it makes a trunk as graceful as an 

 Ionic column. As a lawn specimen the tree will quickly 

 make a tall, ovate top. 



Pyramidal. L. tulipifera, var. pyramidalis. This will 

 make a tree 30 feet high and 8 feet wide, similar in outline 

 to the LombardyPoplar. We are planning to work up a 

 stock of this, as we believe it will be one of the best trees 

 of this form. 



YELLOW-WOOD 



Cladrastis tinctoria; syn., Virgilea lutea 



The few people who know this tree admire it exceed- 

 ingly. It combines the gracefulness of the Elm, the smooth, 

 gray bark of the Beech, and the long flower-racemes of 

 the Wistaria, Laburnum, or Locust. It has very beauti- 

 ful white flowers in June, and has no objectionable quali- 

 ties to keep it from any landscape planting. 



WILLOW • Salix 



Weeping. S. Babylonica. The long streamers of foli- 

 age hanging vertically 20 feet or more, to dip in the brook, 

 are characteristic of the Babylonian Willow. It is appro- 

 priate or permanently successful only where there is 

 abundant moisture. 



Salamon's Weeping. 5'. Babylonica, var. Salamonii. 

 This is a variety of the Babylon, growing taller and 

 "weeping" to a less degree. The branches may hang 

 downward only at their tips. 



Golden-barked, or White. S. vitellina aurea pendula. 

 The new twigs of this species are brilliant yellow, espe- 

 cially in early spring. It forms an upright, wide-branching 

 tree, with a trunk 2 or 3 feet in diameter. It is useful 

 for mass-planting at the seashore or in damp ground. 



Laurel-Leaf. S. pentandra. "A California Privet 

 grown to a bushy tree with several trunks," is an accurate 

 description of this species. The leaves are larger than 

 those of a California Privet, and are the most brilliant of 

 all foliage, appearing as if freshly varnished. _ It grows 

 readily in any good soil, and, as it is very rapid in growth, 

 we recommend the use of the smaller sizes for mass- 

 planting at the seashore, holding steep banks, especially 

 near the base where the soil is damper. 



The Yellow-Wood has showy, white, pea-shaped flowers. 

 It is a vigorous tree of average size 



WALNUT . Juglans 



Black. /. nigra. On the old Long Island farmsteads 

 the Black Walnut tree was as essential for its nuts as the 

 grove of Locusts for its posts and the trunnels used for 

 spiking together the old wooden ships. These veteran 

 Black Walnuts were the largest trees in the vicinity, 

 but many have been recently shipped to Germany for 

 furniture or gun-stocks. As a young tree. Black Walnut 

 does not especially excite admiration; but an old tree, 

 with its far-reaching, massive branches, is always to be 

 venerated and respected. Its successful growth is depend- 

 ent upon a deep, fertile soil, and when it is given proper 

 conditions, its growth is fairly rapid. 



Butternut. /. cinerea. On Long Island this does not 

 grow to be such a large, broad tree as the Black Walnut, 

 although native to this section. Toward Canada, where 

 it is more at home, it makes a very large tree. We have a 

 quantity of small trees at low rates, and to those wishing 

 to start a nut -grove we recommend that this size be 

 planted, for all the nut trees transplant most successfully 

 when small-sized trees are used. 



Japan. /. cordiformis. This resembles the Butternut, 

 but grows more rapidly. 



Pin Oaks 



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